Jai Khanna | Executive Producer
Jai Khanna is a seven year veteran of renowned management and television production company, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment. Khanna’s forte is development of an intellectual property, having input above and below the line from storyline, characters, and casting to the procurement of funding and implementation of marketing/promotion.
Khanna’s relationship with and representation of writers has aided him in bringing fresh material to the acting segment of his roster which includes Lost star Josh Holloway (upcoming feature for Universal is entitled Whisper), Gary Dourdan (CSI), Kevin Nealon (WEEDS), hostess and actress Vanessa Minnillo (currently on MTV and Paramount’s Entertainment Tonight), George Stults (7th Heaven), Brian Krause (Charmed), Ike Barinholtz (MAD TV), Indo-American Navi Rawat (Numbers), Bree Turner (Fox Film Just My Luck co-starring with Lindsay Lohan), and other talented actors. Khanna’s stable of writers producing hit shows for cable and network (CBS, ABC, WB, FOX, UPN, HBO, and SHOWTIME) and film, such as Monsoon Wedding writer Sabrina Dhawan, has paved the way for an on going successful dialogue, project after project, with executives, producers, and directors.
Robin Bradford | Producer and Screenwriter
Robin has been writing for film for five years and has ten completed scripts, two of which are in pre-production, and four of which have been sold. Her script Email From Heaven won Best Comedy Screenplay at the Telluride Film Festival 2004, and was a semi-finalist at the Austin Film Festival. Catbird Strut won a Platinum
Remi Award at the 2006 Houston Worldfest Film Festival. Prey For Me (co-written by Allen Cody Taube) won Best Mystery Thriller at both the Telluride and Key West Film Festivals in 2004. Darling Diva was a finalist at the Sundance Writers Lab in 2004, besides winning a Platinum Remi at the Houston World Film Festival. Robin has also written for the stage, and was a founding member of the Bay Area’s Brookside Repertory Theatre. She continues to study writing with acclaimed Eugene O’Neill Theatre distinguished playwright Will Dunne. Graduation, her first full-length feature production is currently in post-production.
Robin has a strong business and leadership background as the founder and CEO of Bradford Staff, a highly successful recruiting and temporary placement firm headquartered in San Francisco. Robin grew the Company from a one-person startup to a leading California company with six Bay Area offices and over 5,000 temporary employees annually. Robin was consistently named as one of San Francisco’s Top Twenty-Five Women in Business and featured in INC. Magazine and many other publications. She has served on the Boards of San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco State University’s Graduate School of Business, the YMCA, and as Chairperson of San Francisco Zen Center’s Everyday Board.
Manu Gargi | Line Producer
Starting in 1993, Manu has been producing prime-time television shows such as Oye MTV!, Disney Club, Khwahish, The Great Manovaigyanik Show in South Asia for companies such as MTV, Disney/Buena Vista, STAR TV/News Corp., and Sony Entertainment. He moved from Mumbai, India to Los Angeles in 2004 to pursue a career in producing films and entertainment with an international appeal. His film credits in various capacities over the past two years include Hard Candy, The Gold Bracelet, Graduation and Because I Said So, besides a number of commercials and music videos. He holds a degree in Film and Economics from Vassar College.
Curtiss Bradford | Producer
Curtiss Bradford received his BFA from the Drama Department of USC in acting. As a part of the Fine Arts Program, he helped develop a theatre program for The California Museum of Science and Industry, (now The California ScienCenter) and became the Artistic Director. He wrote plays, directed productions, composed music, participated as a performer and oversaw the financial operations of the company, which performed in-house and toured the Southern California region for over ten years. He has written and directed three one-half hour comedy videos for the indie market and his novelty songs have been featured on The Doctor Demento Radio Show. His film/TV credits include Freaks and Geeks, Big Love, Man About Town, She’s So Lovely, Separate Lives, and Team America: World Police.
Jim Finkelstein | COO / CFO
Jim Finkelstein is a seasoned business executive and entrepreneur. His founded his company, FutureSense, Inc., a premiere Bay Area consulting firm specializing in organizational development, after having served as a Partner in a Big Five Accounting firm and a corporate CEO. He has served on the Board of Directors of the YMCA, the World Affairs Council, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and San Domenico School. He is a graduate of Trinity College (CT) and received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Doug Cheney | Director
Doug Cheney directed his first film GI Joe And The Jetpack at the age of eight, on his father’s 8mm Cosina camera. Since then he has directed over one hundred commercials for clients such McDonald’s Nickelodeon, Johnson & Johnson, Tylenol, etc. He was 2nd-unit director on the feature Whacked, and will also be directing the upcoming feature Finding Santa, which he has also written.
Paul Mayne | Cinematographer
Paul Mayne has been the Director of Photography on features such as The Works, Color Of The Cross, Hollywood Sign, and Death Of A Saleswoman. In addition, he shot the documentaries Lode and Gork, as well as a number of commercials for clients including Jeep, Krispy Kreme, AT&T, DirecTV, etc.
He has received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film from Florida State University in 1997, and has been living in Los Angeles for the past eight years pursuing interesting projects with creative film-makers.
Lindsay Chag | Casting Director
With two degrees from Stanford University, Lindsay began her Hollywood career as an intern at a casting agency. Three years later, she opened her own shop, and to date has cast over 40 feature films, including Mel Brooks’ Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Dracula: Dead and Loving It. Lindsay has Associate-Produced 10 feature films and also has extensive experience in television and pilot casting, primarily for ABC and Fox television. Her television credits include Anything But Love and Relativity, among many other well-known shows.
Massimiliano Frani | Music Composer
Praised for the beauty of his interpretations, Massimiliano Frani’s concert engagements have been accompanied by radio and television recordings in the United States, Italy, France, Japan, Australia, and Hungary. Currently a member of the American Piano Quartet, Mr. Frani is an enthusiastic and captivating recitalist and has collaborated with ensembles such as the Klavierquartet Italiano, and the Barrus Piano Trio. He is committed to music education, and has served as Instructor at Brigham Young University and at Tuachon Center for the Arts, Utah and has presented seminars and master classes in several countries.
Jason A. Payne | Film Editor
Jason Payne, a graduate of the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University, has spent the last several years as a documentary and film editor at North by Northwest Productions, in Spokane, WA. His documentary and behind-the-scenes work for films such as Whacked!, Hangman's Curse, Shadow of Fear, Mozart & the Whale, and The Choke, has been featured on both DVD and television. In 2004, Jason co-produced and edited the nationally televised, Making The Passion of The Christ, an hour-long documentary on the making of Mel Gibson's film. An editor with diverse tastes and the ability to work across genres, Jason recently edited the teen thriller, The Choke, and the Chuck Norris action film, The Cutter.